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(zhäN-bät st´-s m ôN´ shärd N´) (KEY) , 1699–1779, French painter. He was a major figure of 18th-century painting. While the Académie royale...
(shärl p rsy ´) (KEY) , 1764–1838, French architect. He won (1786) the Grand Prix de Rome, and in 1794 he became associated with Pierre François ...
( k ´d ) (KEY) , Fr. Acadie, region and former French colony, E Canada, encompassing modern Nova Scotia but also New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island...
( k ´ n) (KEY) , confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth. The First Achaean League, about which little is known, was formed presumably before ...
( d´ m) (KEY) , [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female,...
( p l´´ dôr´ s) (KEY) , fl. 430–400 B.C., Athenian painter, called the Shadower, said to have introduced the use of light and shade to model for...